Coinop HUD Frames

Coinop HUD Frames is a set of 10 heads-up display frames drawn in the arcade style, where the colour is the body rather than the border — saturated slabs with pointed ends. It contains a minimap frame with a north marker, a character portrait frame, a compass strip, three crosshair reticles, an objective waypoint marker and a quest tracker plate.

These are the pieces that stay on screen the whole time a game is being played, which makes them the hardest to get right: every one of them has to be readable over arbitrary game art without covering the middle of the screen.

Each slab is filled with a two-stop gradient running along its long axis, and the marks are drawn dark on top of the colour rather than bright on top of black. The pointed ends are part of the silhouette, so they survive being scaled instead of being an outline effect.

Inside that style this is the Coinop reading of it: a dark interface on a plum black palette with coin gold accents, built around a single bordered frame, chamfered buttons at 200x56, hollow-cored bars divided into 5 segments, and two-tone icons on a 32px grid. Those measurements are why two families can share an art style without being interchangeable: the style decides how an edge is drawn, the numbers decide what the interface is for.

The quest plate marks a completed objective with a filled box and a struck-through line rather than by dimming it, so the tracker stays legible against a bright sky. The compass ticks alternate major and minor so a heading can be read at a glance rather than counted.

Every sprite ships as an editable SVG and as transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x, so you can drop the PNGs straight into an engine or open the vector and change a colour. Built to the same measurements as the rest of the Coinop family, which means this kit and the Coinop panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for racing, arcade and score-driven interfaces.

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